Manifest is a festival piece by Sila Sveta that was exhibited in the 2018 edition of iMapp Bucharest, the International VideoMapping Competition.
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Budapest-based projection mapping company Maxin10sity organized the fifth annual contest, held on September 22, 2018, for an audience of 100,000. A jury nominated ten international finalists to cover the facade of the Palace of the Parliament, which has a projection surface of 23,000 square meters—the second largest administrative building in the world, after the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
In 2018, Romania celebrated a centenary of national unity. In keeping with the competition’s theme of the past 100 years of national history, Manifest is a call to citizens for unity and freedom. A child’s voice begins to narrate the story, continues with an adult’s voice, and ends with that of an elderly person.
We applied an experimental approach in production: each designer was assigned a 20–30-second-long fragment of the show, which began and ended with a picture that we gave them along with the corresponding music. They were tasked to come up with content for the time they were entrusted with.
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project team
Creative Director Denis Bashev Art Director Arthur Kond Producer Dmitry Babanin Supervisor Oleg Barankin Concept Artists Ekaterina Konovalova, Veronika Boglay, Tatiana Kazakova, Anna Koltzova CG Artists Sergey Dvoryashin, Vsevolod Kanishchev, Konstantin Shun, Vasiliy Shikhachevskiy, Arthur Kond Video Evgeny Arkhipov Music DZA x NVG (how2make) Sound Design cutmylips